Here to Help: Climate Change
For life’s big and small moments Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh staff have created Here to Help booklists. Here to Help booklists provide information and support in navigating life experiences. Librarians at your neighborhood library are here to help too and can offer suggestions for these or other topics of interest, as well as community information and resources. Through these booklists you can create opportunities to find connection, solace, comfort, or information for action.
The books in this list provide information and resources for adults about climate change.
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Before the Streetlights Come On: Black America's Urgent Call for Climate Solutions
Climate activist Heather McTeer Toney brings her background in politics, community advocacy, and leadership in environmental justice to this revolutionary exploration of why and how Black Americans are uniquely qualified to lead national and global conversations around systems of racial disparity and solutions to the climate crisis. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on hoopla and in eAudio on hoopla.
A Future We Can Love: How We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts & Minds
Discover wisdom and guidance to face the climate emergency from the most influential spiritual and environmental leaders of our time, including the Dalai Lama, Greta Thunberg, Joanna Macy, Vandana Shiva, Paul Hawken, Katharine Hayhoe, and Matthieu Ricard.
Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
Climate and environment-related fears and anxieties are on the rise everywhere. As with any type of stress, eco-anxiety can lead to lead to burnout, avoidance, or a disturbance of daily functioning. In Generation Dread, Britt Wray seamlessly merges scientific knowledge with emotional insight to show how these intense feelings are a healthy response to the troubled state of the world.
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Over the next fifty years, millions of Americans will be caught up in this churn of displacement, forced inland and northward in what will be the largest migration in our country’s history. The Great Displacement compassionately tells the stories of those who are already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will transform our lives—erasing historic towns and villages, pushing people toward new areas, and reshaping the geography of the United States. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and in eAudio on Libby.
How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Community, and Our Planet
Based on the Good Grief Network’s acclaimed 10 Steps to Resilience and Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate program, this book unpacks the social, political, and spiritual nuances of the climate emergency, step by step. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby.
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it’s an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby.
This Sweet Earth: Walking with Our Children in the Age of Climate Collapse
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. This title is also available for checkout in eAudio on Libby.